Local notices from Wew Oxfordter and York County events
A compilation of short items reports embezzlement case against S. Clair. deaths including Henry Kemrick and J. B. Thomas. infrastructure aid request for Duisburg highway. possible electric chair for three Schuylkill county men. Ruth Achenbach fatal burn from a lost ball. infantile paralysis deaths in York County. perpetual motion claim by Charles Styer. Good Will Fire Co device death and a series of robberies in Wilkes-Barre confessed by youths. George Landis dies of blood poisoning. stray bullet near Dallastown. Berger sisters killed in Gettysburg auto crash. despondent worker commits suicide. Memorial Day era fatalities and wrecks on the W. M. railroad near Cahill. multiple death reports including Amos Eshleman and General Lomax. baseball injury to Harrison Arnold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Williams
Philadelphia
David Steller
Bangor
Pottstown
John W. Bickel
Montgomery County
Charity Hospital
Norristown
Altoona
H. V
Glenn Mills Reformatory
Fuller
George Landis
Stiltz
York County
Franklin Square Hospital
Baltimore
R. Landis
Charles A Spatz
Dallastown
Spatz
Madam Westley Sentenced for Larceny Swindle at York
Madame Westley alias Mrs O H Carr was sentenced to six months to three years in theastern penitentiary by Judge Warner in York for larceny. She pleaded guilty to swindling William Free of York out of 2000 while he had his fortune told on January 20. Chief Detective Oscar Stoner arrested her in Pittsburg shortly after the offense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madame Westley
O. H. Carr
Astern
Warner
York
William Free
Oscar Stoner
Pittsburg
Dr. Cheney’s Catarrh Cure Adverts Patent Remedy
An 19th century style advertisement claims Dr. Cheney’s Catarrh Cure cures catarrh and related ailments by acting internally on mucous surfaces. The firm offers 100 dollars to prove any failure and invites testimonials. Also mentions Mall’s Pills for constipation and Toledo Ohio origin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
V. Cuenrrn
Fidel
Reaquires & Constitutioanel
Nature
J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Oslo
Tone Mall
Youny Pilla
New Oxford to vote on bond increase for water plant access
The Borough of New Oxford Adams County Pennsylvania schedules a July 1 1918 election to seek assent to increasing bonded indebtedness by fifteen thousand dollars for a water filtration plant and to fund floating debt. The ordinance approved April 18 1913 outlines the plan and purpose for the borrowing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Borough of
New Oxford
County of Adams
Commonwealth of
Pemnsylvania
A. D
Va. D
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
New Oxford Borough Seeks Indebtedness Increase for Water Plant
Borough officials seek approval to raise debt from 14 000 to 29 000 for a water flotation plant and to fund a portion of floating indebtedness. The increase equals about 44 percent of the last assessed valuation, with total current debt listed as 14 000. Signed by Burgess CG Livingston and Town Council President Frank L Weaver on May 29 1913.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burgess and
Borough of
New Oxford
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
I. CG. Livingston
Burgess
Frank L. Weaver
A. D
Franis L. Weaver
Thos, I, Bower
Kk. CG. Livingston, Burgess
Persistent garden warfare and farm listings entice buyers
The notice touts persistent spraying as essential against insects and diseases, promotes Auker's Pharmacy insecticides, and urges readers to list farms for twenty waiting buyers. It highlights the County Home near Gettysburg with a 13 room frame house, outbuildings, trees, and possession this Fall, under H. P. Bigham property in Greenmount, and notes selective advertising of farms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gettysburg
Emmitsburg
H. P. Bigham
Greenmount
Public Sale of Adams County Estate Land in 1918
The Administrator of Mary M Stonesifer estate announces a public sale on the premises in Brushtown Conawaro Township Adams County Pennsylv nia. The tract adjoins Harry Breighner and Samuel Hockensmith and includes a log weatherboarded house a frame hog barn chicken house smoke house a water well and pump. Sale starts at 2 00 o’clock p m with terms by Julius W Fischer Administrator Crawford Auct.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary M Stonesifer
Conowago Township
Adams County
Orphans Court
Brushtown
Conawaro Township
Harry Breighner
Samuel Hockensmith
Julius W Fischer
S H. Crawlford
Borough Tax Ordinance for 1913 New Oxford
An ordinance of the Borough of New Oxford Adams County Pennsylvania levies a three mill general tax and a four mill bond and water system tax for municipal purposes in 1913. It was adopted May 11 1913 and approved May 14 1913.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Oxford
Adams
Pennsylvania
Borough of
County of Adams
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
State of Annie Adams administration notice
State of Annie Adams late of Conewella Township Adams County Pa deceased Letters of administration on said estate having been granted to the undersigned All persons indebted thereto are requested to make immediate payment and those having claims against the same will present them without delay for settlement to the undersigned residing at Brushbrog n Adams County Pa Charles E Klunk Adm P O Address Littlestown Route 8
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie Adams
Conewall Township
Adams County
Brushbrogn
Chanles E. Klunk
Admi
P.O
Littlestown
Route 8
Also Mentioned on This Page
Wew Oxfordtter
Gos
S. Clair
Columbia
Henry Kemrick
Fountain Springs
J. B. Thomas
Morris Township
Huntingdon County
Duisburg
Schuylkill County
Tener
Ruth Achenbach
Joseph Hoskins
Spring Garden Township
Charles Styer
East Greenville
Good Will Fire Co
Lebanon
University of Pennsylvania
Hanover
Robert Altland
Bigmount
Waverly Oil Works CQ
Pittsburgh
Rosella Berger
Bertie Berger
Cumberland
FE. P. Miller
Cumberland City
Berger
Firma
Irving College
Bertie
Miller Home
Reading Hardware Company
Elmer Sr. Goodman
Jefferson Martin
Mt. Pleasant
W. M
Big Six
Cahill
C. E.geist
Hagerstown
Amos Eshleman
Lancaster
Lunsford Lomax
Gettysburg National Park Commission
Washington
Warrenton
Virginia
Lomax
National Park Commission
Harrison Arnold
Franklintown
Arnold
Hie
Lee Mor Sale
L. T. Ehrevart
New Cnoester
Gettysburg, PA
Weaver & Son
Nou
Anders
the Lea
H Black Company
Bride
Harry Tieman
New Oxford Cemetery
C.F
Sucinbarees St
Phila
Hk. Auritano
Abbottstown
Auker’s
Kp. T. Auker
Runk & Peckman’s Realty Report
Runik
Phcis Man
Masonic Building
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